Box 4 Folder 3: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 50

You are here

Transcription

[Page 50]
                                                                                                                                                                243

Name of Place Meaning or Reason why it was Given Name of Place Meaning or Reason why it was Given
Wongigai "Wongi" Tallow wood tree. Name of place on Hill North side of  Kynnumboon plain Tenghie Flood tide
Mulgulgum 'Raspberry Vine" Hill at North Arm Girrals Stop
Mungurrabar Mungurra. Gum tree, Hill near Myall Creek    
Choongurra - bare - nar -in de - arn (arn long) Choongurra. Pelican. The whole name signifies the Pelican's Corrobbee from "(a flat topped hill close to Boyd's bay Tweed Heads known as "Observatory Hill"    
Durobby Creek Durobby a tree    
  These are all the names of places I can at present obtain. I now give a list of trees re which may be useful:    
Widji Widji Re Cedar    
Benăbara Beech tree    
Kirarē Box tree    
Ningēē Sun    
Kibbūm Morn    
Chungārn Lightning    
Moongera Thunder    
Tukki White man    
Chulgun Young woman    
Wybera Fire    
Bobbin Smoke    
Quong Rain    
Myaal Flood    
Kinnēfŏra Ebb-tide    
       
       
       

                                                                                                                              J W Martin
                                                                                                                             District Registrar
                                                                                                                                 Murwillumbah

This page has its status set to Completed and is no longer transcribable.